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Business Seminar

Demographics & Market Analysis

BizMiner
Industry Reports include financial analysis, market research, and local business summary.
Off campus access to BizMiner
BizStats
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Good place to get U.S. government statistics on employment, consumer and producer prices, industry, and labor. An agency within the U.S. Department of Labor.
Business Resource Library
Links to Business Resources on a variety of topics and links to individual state and local business information.
CenStats
Links to County Business Patterns Data, Building Permits Data, Census Tract Street Locator, and more.
Esri Business Solutions formerly CACI Marketing Systems
Free samples of demographic reports giving population and income data by zip code. (updated Acorn clusters: http://www.caci.co.uk/acorn/)
FDIC Office of Public Affairs
State Profiles provide a quarterly summary of state banking and economic conditions.
Google Local
Business listings and maps.
Lifestyle Market Analyst
REF HF5415.33 U6 L54 2002
MediaMark Reporter
A tool for market research with information on demographics, product and brand usage, and advertising media preferences based on survey responses from a sample of over 26,000 individuals in the United States.
PRIZM - My Best Segments
Choose zipcode lookup from top gray bar.
Small Business Office of Advocacy
See especially State Economic Profiles.
Small Business Development Center
National Information Clearinghouse for Small Business. Good source for industry information.
SRDS: Standard Rate and Data Service
Advertising information resource. RWU subscription includes Radio, TV & Cable, Consumer Magazines and Business Publications.
Source Book of Zip Code Demographics
REF HA203 S67 2005
Switchboard
Telephone listings for people and businesses.
United States Census Bureau
Choose American FactFinder from the left side.

Industry, Company, & Business Information

ABI Inform Global
Business database indexing and providing full-text content from over 1800 business publications.  Coverage: 1971 - present.
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios
REF HF5681 R25 A45
Bizminer
Industry Reports include financial analysis, market research, and local business summary.
Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios
REF HF5681 R25 I525
Mergent Online
When you enter Mergent, click on the Industry Reports tab, select an industry and a region to search.
S& P NetAdvantage 
Business Analysis Pkg - includes Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Bond Rpts, Register & Co Profiles
 
 
 
 

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